Sam Smith wins the Oscar for Best Original Song for ‘Writing’s on the Wall’ featured in James Bond’s Spectre. This follows Adele’s Bond Oscar for Skyfall in 2013.

Receiving the award, Sam Smith said: “If this is the case, even if it isn’t the case, I want to dedicate this to the LGBT community all around the world. I stand here tonight as a proud gay man.”

Diversity was a fundamental theme in this year’s Oscars. Hosted by Chris Rock naming the Oscars as “The white people’s choice awards”; this was the year of the underdog.

Lady Gaga’s emotional song ‘Till it Happens To You’ surprisingly lost out to Sam Smith and is worth strong celebration for voicing another issue which is often brushed under the carpet.

Till it happens to you, you don’t know

How it feels,

How it feels.

Till it happens to you, you won’t know

It won’t be real

No It won’t be real

Won’t know how it feels

Upon releasing the James Bond theme, which, of course, is every musician’s dream to record a Bond song, Sam Smith said on his website: “Ladies & Gentleman, I have been dreaming of this moment for a long long time. Here it is… The James Bond 2015 theme tune to SPECTRE… ‘Writing’s On The Wall’. Download a copy on iTunes.”

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Duran Duran’s View to a Kill was always my favourite Bond song.

Diversity, equality, voicing against abuse, standing up for rights: a clear message. A message influential organisations will now work on to improve. 2016 is a time for change.